[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 24, Volume 4]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 24CFR964.115]

[Page 455]
 
                 TITLE 24--HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
 
CHAPTER IX--OFFICE OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING, 
               DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
 
PART 964--TENANT PARTICIPATION AND TENANT OPPORTUNITIES IN PUBLIC HOUSING--Table of Contents
 
                     Subpart B--Tenant Participation
 
Sec. 964.115  Resident council requirements.

    A resident council shall consist of persons residing in public 
housing and must meet each of the following requirements in order to 
receive official recognition from the HA/HUD, and be eligible to receive 
funds for resident council activities, and stipends for officers for 
their related costs for volunteer work in public housing:
    (a) It may represent residents residing:
    (1) In scattered site buildings;
    (2) In areas of contiguous row houses; or
    (3) In one or more contiguous buildings;
    (4) In a development; or
    (5) In a combination of these buildings or developments;
    (b) It must adopt written procedures such as by-laws, or a 
constitution which provides for the election of residents to the 
governing board by the voting membership of the residents residing in 
public housing, described in paragraph (b) of this section, on a regular 
basis but at least once every three (3) years. The written procedures 
must provide for the recall of the resident board by the voting 
membership. These provisions shall allow for a petition or other 
expression of the voting membership's desire for a recall election, and 
set the number of percentage of voting membership (``threshold'') who 
must be in agreement in order to hold a recall election. This threshold 
shall not be less than 10 percent of the voting membership.
    (c) It must have a democratically elected governing board that is 
elected by the voting membership. At a minimum, the governing board 
should consist of five (5) elected board members.
    The voting membership must consist of heads of households (any age) 
and other residents at least 18 years of age or older and whose name 
appears on a lease for the unit in the public housing that the resident 
council represents.